Vettlu's best starting position

Sebastian Vettel will start the race for the Australian Grand Prix from the best starting position. He will be accompanied primarily by teammate Mark Webber, and Lewis Hamilton finished third in qualifying with a Mercedes.

The qualifiers started or continued on the wet asphalt, but the track quickly started to dry out and towards the end the racers were already driving with tires for the dry track.

 

Unofficial qualification times:

	Racer	Team	Hour	Circles
1.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	01:27.407	27
2.	Mark Webber	Red Bull	01:27.827	26
3.	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:28.087	29
4.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	01:28.490	23
5.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	01:28.493	26
6.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	01:28.523	28
7.	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus	01:28.738	27
8.	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	01:29.013	25
9.	Paul di Resta	Force India	01:29.305	23
10.	Jenson Button	McLaren	01:30.357	24
11.	Nico Hulkenberg	Clean	01:38.067	19
12.	Adrian Sutil	Force India	01:38.134	19
13.	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	01:38.778	19
14.	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	01:39.042	20
15.	Sergio Perez	McLaren	01:39.900	18
16.	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	01:40.290	19

17.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	01:47.614	11
18.	Esteban Gutierrez	Clean	01:47.776	10
19.	Jules Bianchi	Marussia	01:48.147	11
20.	Max Chilton	Marussia	01:48.909	11
21.	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham	01:49.519	11
22.	Charles Pic	Caterham	01:50.626	10